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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for June 2025:

Classic:
Nothing is more horrible to me than the arrogance of the “intellectual” and learned professions.
— Max Weber, 1893.

Direct:
The test of whether we are worth our salt is whether we can offer other people more helpful ideas than they can think up on their own during coffee breaks.
— Basic Principles for Social Science in Our Time, 1987.

Garden moment for June 2025:

The golden chain tree (Laburnum) is utterly uninteresting except for the couple of weeks it is in bloom, but what a gift those weeks are in late spring.

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